Now that we're approaching New Year's Eve with hasty steps, I have found a bit of inspirational gold and glitter for you :-) Although I'm one of those who deem New Year's Eve a bit overrated, I do love the fireworks, the sparklers, lovely table settings and decorations. How are you celebrating New Year's Eve?

27/12/2014

Hello everybody! I hope you've had a nice Christmas? I sure did, and everything (including fitting the two ducks in the oven) went so well. I just wanted to drop by and show you a few pics of the Christmas table, before we all have had enough of Christmas and decorations (to be honest, I have already packed everything away). The table was decorated very simple with blue French anemones, vintage brass candle holders and small folded origami cranes. Along with my mixed Royal Copenhagen plates and blue napkins.

23/12/2014

One day left. that's it. Crazy right? And I haven't even had time to show you any of my Christmas decoration. Well, well, next year maybe :-) Actually, I don't decorate that much, and I guess that's why I love the way the always inspiring Elisabeth Heierhas decorated her beautiful home. So simple and elegant, with just a few winter plants and stars here and there. Just the way I prefer it.

As I've told earlier, we are hosting Christmas Eve for the first time this year and I'm looking forward to it with equal parts of excitement and anxiety. I'm not quite sure how two ducks will fit in our oven, but I'm sure everything will work out just fine in the end :-D Fortunately, my little sister is coming today and will help prepare for the big event :-)

I hope you will all have a very, merry Christmas with your loved ones <3

22/12/2014

I love these chemistry glasses. My husband teaches chemistry at a technical high school, so while he uses these glasses for practical purposes, I find their different shapes and sizes so aesthetic and use them for decoration in our home. I like how our two very different personalities can be combined that way. Good chemistry.

20/12/2014

Happy Saturday, dear readers! Have your Christmas break started yet? My husband's started yesterday, so we've had a really lazy morning with breakfast in bed and Astrid Lindgren movies on the computer. Pretty perfect, if you ask me. Remember, I showed you my new 'night stand' the other day? Well, Mads also got himself a pocket. A small one though, as he doesn't have as many pits and pieces as I do :-)

18/12/2014

I love great storage solutions, and since we have such a small bathroom (yes, so small that I haven't showed it on the blog yet), I need convenient storage for all our bathroom products. So, when the Danish brand Nomess (no mess, got it? :-D) recently got in contact with me to try some of their products, there was no doubt that I chose their balsa boxes, and I had so much fun making this small bathroom styling - outside the bathroom that is. And then I hope that I one day will have a huge spa-like bathroom, preferably with a concrete counter and black fixtures. What does your dream bathroom look like?

15/12/2014

Good Monday morning, dear readers. Hope you've had a great weekend? I'm of to a good start to the new week, as I'm going to celebrate my sister's 20th birthday today. Congratulations, dear Juliane!

And now to another celebration. A couple of weeks ago, I bought myself an early Christmas present - the book "Colourful" - which celebrates 10 years of collaboration between the Swedish interior stylist, Lotta Agaton, and the talented photographer, Pia Ulin. Since Lotta first announced the news about the book, I have been impatiently waiting for it's release, as I love Lotta's style, and Pia Ulin takes such amazing photographies. Just see for yourself on the pictures above, which is from one of the stylings made exclusively for the book. Gorgeous, right? The name "Colourful" is obviously an ironic comment on the scale of lovely muted and neutral colours, they prefer to use in their work. Pure perfection. You can buy the book here.

13/12/2014

First of all, a warm welcome to all new bloglovin followers - I have no idea where you came from or how you found me, maybe you can enlighten me? Nonetheless, I'm so happy that you are here :-)

Now, to something completely different. As you know, I got my gift wrapping theme covered (and I'm really happy to hear, I'm not the only one obsessing over gift wrapping, hah), however, I still haven't quite figured out what my gift tags should look like, and since I thought some of you might be in the same position, I have found some ideas that will fit perfectly into the Scandinavian (and minimalistic) Christmas mood - both some easy DIYs and some free printables :-)

2. I love this idea, and I actually made them a couple of years ago. Find pictures of your favourite winter animals (e.g. penguin, reindeer, fox, owl, bear, wolf), print them on good quality paper and cut them out, et voilà. You can find some winter animals on my Christmas Pinterest board here.

3. These monochrome tags would be perfect for an all black, white and graphic theme. Find them here.

12/12/2014

I wear the same pieces of jewellery every day - my wedding ring, the stud earrings my husband gave me as a morning gift on our wedding day, and my Michael Kors watch. I guess I'm a bit of a creature of habit in that way. Although I only wear them on special occasions, I still love looking at all my other jewellery pieces and heirlooms, so my new jewellery box from Menu is indeed a wooden wonder and exactly the thing I have been looking for for my dresser. I love the minimalistic design, the material, and the fact that there is a mirror in the lid is just genius :D How do you keep your jewellery?

11/12/2014

Wrapping gifts is one of my favourite things to do. It really is. I don't like to admit it, but I'm actually one of those persons, who will re-wrap a gift if I dislike the shop assistant's gift wrapping skills or paper. I know that sounds very silly and maybe even pretentious to some, sorry - I just can't help myself :D Every Christmas, I try to come up with a new 'theme' for my wrapping - for instance 'winter wonderland', 'simple and natural' or 'black, white and graphic'. This year, however, I'm not really sure what to call my 'theme', it just suddenly appeared, when I found the purple eucalyptus (?) twigs. I have a thing for combining burgundy and nude colours, so this is how it turned out this year. Do you like gift wrapping? And do you also come up with a "theme" every year, or is it just me :D

10/12/2014

When we moved into our new apartment, we didn't really have any furniture to bring with us from our old place. Well, except from a coffee table and my beloved rocking chair. That was it :-) So, we had to buy a whole lot of new furniture, and that meant that especially our bedroom turned into something taken out of an IKEA catalogue (which I otherwise dread) - with a white bed, closet, night stands and dresser, all from IKEA. It has been very functional and a good neutral base, but also rather boring in my opinion. So I have begun to look for some better (and lets be honest - prettier and more personal) solutions, and last week I finally found the perfect solution for new 'night stands': pockets organizers from Normann Copenhagen - much inspired by this lovely bedroom styling by Minna Jones from Time of the Aquarius. They are simply perfect for all my knickknacks. What do your night stands look like?